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Winvic appointed to construct UK’s largest ever single occupier logistics park

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Winvic Construction has been awarded the contract by IM Properties to build five large steel-framed industrial units at Mercia Park in Leicestershire. The units will be leased to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), making this, what is said to be, the UK’s largest single occupier logistics park.

Winvic is already working on Mercia Park, undertaking all of the Park’s infrastructure and also building three buildings for DSV. Caunton Engineering is erecting the steel for the DSV scheme, but no steelwork contractor has so far been appointed for the JLR development.

The five buildings for JLR consist of units two and four, which are the largest steel frames, offering 93,000m2 and measuring 514m-long x 181m-wide. Units three and five are both 27,800m2, while the smallest steel frame, unit one is 18,500m2. All of the units will incorporate either two-storey or three-storey offices.

Danny Nelson, Director and Head of Industrial at Winvic, commented: “We have been on an incredible journey with IM Properties to date, working on numerous projects, but schemes of this nature don’t come around too often and so Mercia Park is one we are very proud to be a part of. We’re looking forward to constructing our largest industrial facility to date for IMP and end user, UK automotive pioneer, Jaguar Land Rover.”

Jason Jasper, UK Project Director for IM Properties, said: “This is not only the largest single occupier deal ever to be agreed and funded, but a major planning, construction and project delivery accomplishment. We’ve taken a 238-acre site from zero to development ready in four years. Typically, a scheme of this scale would be delivered in separate phases over a five-to-ten-year period. After years of investment and hard work, it will be exciting to see all of the buildings come out of the ground at the same time. We have worked hard with Winvic and our supply chain to manage the logistical challenges that comes with building this volume at the same time, together with managing a phased handover of the development to JLR.”

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